Why do they always want to grow up so fast?

So, I'm talking on the phone with my friend Kara this morning, and Max, who is just shy of his eight month birthday and who has been crawling for all of about two weeks, scoots over to me and pulls himself up to standing. And now that he has realized he can do it, it's all he wants to do all day long. Doesn't he realize he owes his existence to the fact that I wanted another baby???

I remember when my sister-in-law Christene and I announced our third pregnancies almost simultaneously, my mom sighed and said "it's like puppies and kittens - you girls want more babies, but you forget that they grow up!" Don't tell my kids, but my mom was kind of right! :-)

Oh well, luckily I'm still pretty enamored of my older kids - I guess I'll keep the lot of them. But from here on out I'll have to get my baby ya-yas by befriending expectant mothers. :-)